Chemistry Newsletter - 08/24/1998

University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Chemistry Newsletter

Preliminary Organic Chemistry Cumulative Exam Schedule, 1998-99.

Thursdays, 7:30 p.m., room B371.

ATTENTION GRADUATE STUDENTS
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IMPORTANT DATES:

MINOR AGREEMENT FORMS: The Graduate School requires that the minor program be outlined in an agreement which is approved by the Department no later than halfway through completion of the sequence minor courses. The minor requirement must be completed by the end of the third year of graduate school. Minor agreement forms are available in Room 1315.

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SEMINARS

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There were no seminar listings for this newsletter.

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Graduate Fellowships for Minorities and Women in the Physical Sciences

The National Physical Science Consortium Graduate Fellowships for Minorities and Women in the Physical Sciences is offering a unique and exciting six year doctoral fellowship program. For applications and complete details stop by room 1380 Chemistry or stop by the NPSC web page at http://www.npsc.org.

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For Industrial Positions, see the Chemistry Placement Newsletter at:

http://www.chem.wisc.edu/placement/7news.html

FACULTY POSITIONS/TEMPORARY FACULTY/ACADEMIC POSITIONS

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Illinois State University - Tenure track position at the Assistant Professor level available for 1999, preferably January. Ph.D. required and postdoctoral experience desirable. Primary responsibilities will be in our Chemical Education program as well as significant teaching duties in General Chemistry. Area open but expertise in the Chemical Education field preferred. Development of a productive research program (either laboratory or pedagogical) involving BS and MS students that will attract external funding will be expected. To receive fullest consideration applicants should submit a resume, a brief description of proposed scholarly projects, and the names of at least three references to: Chairperson, Department of Chemistry, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4160 before Oct. 15, 1998.

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University of Pennsylvania, Department of Chemistry. Assistant Professor in Inorganic Chemistry. As part of a continuing development program, the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania expects to make an appointment in Inorganic Chemistry at the Assistant Professor (tenure probationary) level. Applicants should send their curriculum vitae, list of publications, and a description of proposed research to: Hai-Lung Dai, Chairman Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323, by October 23, 1998. Applicants should also arrange 3 letters of reference to be sent to the same address.

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Dr. Paul C. Driscoll, Royal Society University Research Fellow, Group Leader, Joint UCL/LICR NMR Laboratory, wishes to bring to your attention an exciting opening for a five-year position as a NMR facility manager for their new structural Biology centre (also recently advertised in Nature). For details, follow the jobs vacancies link at: http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/.

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Virginia W. Miner, Ph.D., Acorn NMR Inc. Acorn NMR has openings for a spectroscopist, an NMR engineer and a programmer. See http://www.acornnmr.com.

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POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AND/OR JOBS

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Professor Laurie J. Butler has a Postdoctoral Position in Atmospheric Physical Chemistry. Candidates are sought for a postdoctoral position at the University of Chicago in the field of atmospheric physical chemistry. Funded by a prestigious award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, this position provides an opportunity for outstanding chemists to perform research in environmental science. The visiting scientist will work in the laboratories of Prof's. L. Butler and/or J. Abbatt, in a program designed jointly with the visiting scientist to maximize his/her ease of entree into this interdisciplinary area. Potential projects include: photochemistry of atmospheric species, the optical properties of aerosols, and atmospheric heterogeneous chemistry. Candidates should send a cv, letter of research interests, and the names and addresses of three potential references to either: Prof. L. J. Butler, James Franck Institute and Dept. of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL, 60637 or Prof. J. Abbatt, Dept. of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL, 60637, by Sept. 30, 1998.

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Assistant Professor Wilfred A. van der Donk of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has a postdoctoral position available immediately in his laboratory. This position is part of our program focused on post translational modifications of peptide antibiotics. The project is strongly interdisciplinary, and involves synthetic chemistry (including methodology development), combinatorial chemistry, enzymology, and molecular biology. I would welcome applications from individuals with expertise in any of these fields. The postdoctoral associate will have the opportunity to expand his/her repertoire of skills and techniques at the interface between chemistry and biology. Applications or questions may be directed to: Wilfred A. van der Donk, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign, 345 Roger Adams Laboratory, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, Phone 217 244-5360, FAX 217 244-8068, e-mail: vddonk@aries.scs.uiuc.edu.

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Professor George Flynn of Columbia University has a post-doctoral position opening in his gas phase chemical physics research group, available beginning September 1, 1998. He is seeking a person with especially strong experimental skills to use, as well as to supervise graduate students in using, new state of the art visible and infrared diode lasers as well as a tunable narrow band (500 MHz) OPO, tunable from roughly 1.5-3.5 microns. Excimer and dye lasers plus the usual component of transient recorders and computers rounds out our experimental apparatus. Our work is focused on collision dynamics, particularly energy transfer involving molecules with chemically significant amounts of energy. Interested candidates should send a CV and publication list plus the names and phone numbers of two people who would be willing to recommend them to: Columbia University, Chemistry Department, MC 3109, 3000 Broadway, New York, New York 10027, George Flynn, Higgins Professor of Chemistry, Director, Columbia Radiation Laboratory.

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Professor Thomas M. Loehr of the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology has an immediate opening for a postdoctoral associate in metallobiochemistry. He is looking for an individual with expertise in structural characterization of metalloenzyme active sites and reactive intermediates supported by appropriate model systems. This position will primarily involve RR spectroscopy, augmented by UV/VIS and EPR measurements. Possible projects include heme enzymes (heme oxygenases, peroxidases) and nonheme iron systems (diiron carboxylate enzymes, ferritin). He recently succeeded in measuring 02 and Fe-02 vibrations in peroxo intermediates of ribonucleotide reductase and delta-9 desaturase. Applicants should send a CV and names of three references to: Prof. Thomas M. Loehr, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 91000 Portland, OR 97291-1000, 20,000 NW Walker Road, Beaverton, OR 97006, phone: 503-690-1074; FAX 690-1464, e-mail: loehr@bmb.ogr.edu, http://www.cbs.ogi.edu. Position announcement is in current C&E News.

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DETAILS ARE AVAILABLE IN ROOM 1380.

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